- Women spies, Modesty Blaise (Fictitious character), English Spy stories, Fiction
Each short story in this final installment of the Modesty Blaise series details a different, thrilling tale of international intrigue starring Modesty and her loyal deputy, Willie Garvin.
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- resolvedopen-ended
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Peter O'Donnell
- First published
- 1996
- Pages
- 278
- Publisher
- Souvenir Press Ltd, ReadHowYouWant, Ulverscroft
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780369361400
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Peter O'Donnell was born on 11 April 1920 in Lewisham, London, UK. He was interested in writing as a child, and began writing professionally at the age of 16. During World War II he served in the Royal Signals Corps, and was stationed in Persia, Syria, Egypt, the Western Desert, Italy, and Greece. After the war, he worked as a comic strip writer, and scripted the Daily Express adaptation of the James Bond novel Dr. No. He was most famous for inventing the character Modesty Blaise, an undercover agent who first appeared in comic strips in 1963. In 1965, he published his first novel, Modesty Blaise, which was based on the screenplay he had written for the motion picture of the same name. He al
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